unix84[The Guardian] - Say hello to longlife tech that can challenge our throwaway culture
jmcunxThe other thing missed is laptops manufactured within the past 10 years will meet most people’s needs, so no need to purchase new if there is no hardware issues.
And I wish they mentioned the TPM2 requirement Microsoft is forcing on people, that could generate a lot of ewaste.
u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)If only they were made such that they could be easily cleaned and upgraded. I got an old laptop for free because it was extremely slow which made it unusable.
After removing the dust carpet it ran pretty well again. (although I still later upgraded RAM, CPU, and HDD to SSD) Unfortunately it finally gave out, but it got me 3 extra years, in total going 16!
Edit: That is not a factorial:)
After removing the dust carpet it ran pretty well again. (although I still later upgraded RAM, CPU, and HDD to SSD) Unfortunately it finally gave out, but it got me 3 extra years, in total going 16!
Edit: That is not a factorial:)